Douglas Wolfsperger

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Douglas Wolfsperger

Douglas Wolfsperger (born December 25, 1957 in Zurich ) is a German director of feature and documentary films.

Life

Wolfsperger grew up on Lake Constance as the son of ophthalmologists Giso (1912–1967) and Edith Wolfsperger (* 1924, née von Riss) with two younger siblings.

After the early death of his father, Wolfsperger came to the monastery boarding school of the Upper Swabian Benedictine Abbey of Weingarten at the age of ten to relieve his mother , where mainly Catholic farm sons were housed. After the boarding school was closed in 1972, an odyssey followed through several schools, including a. the Protestant boarding school in Gaienhofen (1977). Finally, Wolfsperger graduated from high school in Constance .

Wolfsperger made his first experiences, which indicated a career as a filmmaker, with Super 8 films during his school days . Among other things, he made a 60-minute film entitled The Encounter of the Virgin Mary with John Travolta and its consequences . After graduating from high school, Wolfsperger completed an internship at Südwestfunk in Baden-Baden . In 1982 he moved to Munich , where he worked as a guest auditor on productions at the University of Television and Film .

In 1985 he made his first own feature film Live back and forth .

Since the early 1990s, Wolfsperger has also made numerous television documentaries about a wide variety of people and their everyday lives, such as garbage collectors - the dirt has to go , a toilet woman - the queen of the train station toilet or Santa Clauses - Vom Himmel hoch .

In 1990 Wolfsperger moved back to Konstanz , where the feature film Test Drive to Paradise was made in 1992 - a Catholic pilgrimage satire with Christiane Hörbiger , Barbara Auer , Axel Milberg and Mathias Gnädinger in the leading roles.

In 1995 he settled in the southern part of Cologne . In the following years he mainly worked for WDR as an author of TV documentaries.

In his feature film Marry me! - The bride and her gravedigger (1999) caused astonishment in the feature pages of the choice of the leading actress - Verona Feldbusch , who had previously been inexperienced in acting, alongside the award-winning Ulrich Noethen .

In 2002 the film Bellaria - As long as we live! (via a special retrospective art house cinema in Vienna's 7th district ) a whole series of awards.

The documentary The Blood Knights , premiered at the Locarno International Film Festival in summer 2004, is an example of documentary cinema.

2005 took place in Locarno also the premiere of Wolf Sperger work War'n you ever been in love with me? instead of. The film tells the life story of the forgotten film actor, singer and cabaret artist Max Hansen and at the same time portrays the eventful Weimar period . In 2006, the film documentary The Long Way to Light followed , the emotional portrait of an East German midwife. The disposed father , Wolfsperger's most personal work to date, deals with the fate of fathers who are denied access to their children after a separation. The documentary was premiered in autumn 2008 at the Hof International Film Festival and was released in German cinemas in June 2009. On August 30, 2012, the film Double Life had its theatrical release. On December 4, 2014, the documentary film Reunion with Brundibar , a German-Czech co-production, celebrated its German cinema premiere. The documentary film Scala Adieu - Gone with Diapers was premiered at the Hof International Film Festival 2018 and was released in German cinemas on March 21, 2019.

Douglas Wolfsperger is the father of two daughters and has lived in Berlin-Charlottenburg and on Lake Constance since 2002 . He is a member of the German Film Academy .

Films (selection)

Movie poster for The Blood Knights

Wolfsperger directed the following films, among others:

Awards

Web links

Commons : Douglas Wolfsperger  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Douglas Wolfsperger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  2. ↑ Douglas Wolfperger's biography. In: http://www.douglas.wolfsperger.de . Retrieved January 5, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Douglas Wolfperger's biography. In: http://www.douglas.wolfsperger.de/ . Retrieved January 5, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Douglas Wolfperger's biography. In: http://www.douglas.wolfsperger.de/ . Retrieved February 26, 2015 .
  5. ^ Douglas Wolfsperger: Filmography. In: http://www.kino.de . Retrieved January 5, 2015 .
  6. ↑ movie content Brundibar. In: http://www.brundibar-derfilm.de . Retrieved January 5, 2015 .
  7. ↑ These are the winners of the 40th Biberach Film Festival . Article dated November 4, 2018, accessed November 5, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Wolfsperger, Douglas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director of documentaries and feature films
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich